There are not many blogs out there dedicated to cooking on a pellet smoker. I have been cooking, grilling & smoking over 35 yrs now. I recently bought a Traeger Lil Tex Elite pellet smoker & have cooked on it over six yrs. now. I would like to share recipes & info I have gained from cooking on it.
Update 2014: I have plenty of recipes here for the pellet smoker so I am now including other outdoor cooking and some of my indoor cooking too.

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Pork Steaks and Fried Potatoes

Sep 09 2015

When I was at my butchers the other day he has some nice
pork steaks cut so I got two of those. They would be good with fried potatoes
and apple sauce.

It was a cloudy cool day so was nicer to be outside. I spent
part of the day chopping part of a log in two so I could finish burning it up
in my Chimenea. It was a good foot diameter by 4 feet long. When I had to have
a Russian olive tree cut down I saved the crotch and part of the trunk. Olive
wood has pretty grain and I was always going to make something arty from it. In
the 30 plus years it lay under a bench the only one that worked on it was
Mother Nature!

I had planned on cooking all outside; I would smoke the pork
steaks in my Traeger an hour and half, get
the potatoes frying on my gas burner and sear the pork steaks on my Weber
Spirit. I had salted and added fresh ground pepper to the steaks and in the
fridge a couple of hours before going on the smoker.

I got the steaks on the smoker and decided with an
approaching weather front I better do the potatoes inside. It would also be
easier to just sear the steaks inside too. I sliced up enough potatoes for 3
layers in the skillet and some thin sliced onions to place between the layers.
I soaked the potatoes in some salt and vinegar water for 15 minutes the drained
in a colander to dry.

I can never get sliced potatoes crispy like my wife can but
I followed directions this time. When it was time I got the potatoes in my CS
skillet with some olive oil and butter. Directions said to cook covered on medium
heat for 10 minutes then turn and do another 10 minutes. I checked them at 5
minutes and they were already getting too brown! I turned them over and
recovered and turned the heat down to medium low.

I got my pork steaks in from the smoker and had a skillet
preheated to sear them on both sides. The steaks were almost too large to get
in my 12 inch CS skillet.

We had a side salad and some bread and butter. Pork steaks
were delicious; I could have gotten a better sear on the gas grill though. The
potatoes were dark brown and soft, not golden brown and crispy like I wanted.
Oh well they still tasted good with the apple sauce. Next time the wife is
frying the potatoes.

I guess I was too flustered over the potatoes and didn’t get
a pic of them browned or the pork steaks in the skillets; the potatoes were not
that pretty anyway!

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I started cooking when our children were in highschool & my wife worked.I was layed off during the summer & just kinda took over the kitchen & my wife does most all the cleanup. We are both retired now. I am a recipe hound, love to try new things. I suppose my cooking methods have evolved from Mid West Ohio, Southern, Soul, Cajun, Creole, & German, all of which I love.